Hollywood Publicists Will Withhold Celebrity Clients from Golden Globes Events Until HFPA Has ‘Transformational Change’

You can read the full letter below.

Letter from Publicists to HFPA

Greg Goecker, COO & General Counsel Ali Sar, President Meher Tatna, Board Chair Hollywood Foreign Press Association 646 N. Robertson Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90069

As publicists we collectively represent the vast majority of artists in the entertainment industry. We call on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to swiftly manifest profound and lasting change to eradicate the longstanding exclusionary ethos and pervasive practice of discriminatory behavior, unprofessionalism, ethical impropriety and alleged financial corruption endemic to the HFPA, funded by Dick Clark Productions, MRC, NBCUniversal and Comcast.

In the last decade our industry has faced a seismic reckoning and begun to address its failure to reflect and honor the diversity of our community, yet we have witnessed no acceptance of responsibility, accountability or action from the HFPA, even as systemic inequity and egregious behavior are allowed to continue. We collectively and unequivocally agree that transformative change in your organization and its historical practices is essential and entirely achievable. We want to be part of the solution.

To reflect how urgent and necessary we feel this work is, we cannot advocate for our clients to participate in HFPA events or interviews as we await your explicit plans and timeline for transformational change.

While we stand ready to support your good faith efforts, please know that anything less than transparent, meaningful change that respects and honors the diversity and dignity of our clients, their colleagues and our global audience will result in immediate and irreparable damage to the relationship between our agencies, our clients and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and those who sanction the institutional inquity and insular culture that currently define it.

The eyes of the industry and those who support it are watching.

Respectfully,

42 West Advantage PR Agence Contact align Public Relations American Entertainment Marketing (AEM) Anderson Public Relations Group Array Ascend Public Relations Group BazanPR Bespoke Publicity Carol Marshall Public Relations Cassandra Butcher PR & Marketing Cinematic Red PR CLD Communications Core PR Group DawBell DDA Detail PR E2W Collective Elzer & Associates Flash Forward Publicity Forefront Media Full Coverage Communications Guttman Associates Public Relations Heidi Schaeffer Public Relations Herring PR Hive Collective ICON PR ID Image Management PR imPRint Independent Public Relations Indie PR Integrated PR JCPR JDS Jill Fritzo Public Relations Jonas PR JONESWORKS Joy Fehily Management + Consulting Katrina Wan PR Katz Public Relations Kovert Creative LongstreetWorks LSG Public Relations Luna Entertainment Main Stage Public Relations Marleah Leslie & Associates Marque PR McClure & Associates Public Relations Meghan Prophet Public Relations MLC PR MPRM Communications MRC Publicity and Marketing Nancy Seltzer & Associates Narrative NMA PR Patricola Public Relations Paula Woods Consultants Persona PR Personal PR Pinnacle Public Relations Platform Public Relations PMG-Platform Media Group Polaris PR Portrait PR PR Machine Premier PRStudio USA Presse Public Relations Principal Communications Group Prism Media Group Prosper PR Public Eye Communications Rebel PR Red Sea Entertainment Relevant Rogers & Cowan/PMK Rosenfield Media Group Rowe PR Schure Media Group Sechel PR Shelter PR Slash Agency Slate PR Strategic Heights Media Strategic Public Relations SYStrategies & PR TCOPR Tencer & Associates The Chamber Group The Collins Jackson Agency The Initiative Group The Lede Company The Oriel Company The Samonte Group True Public Relations TS Collective VanIden Public Relations Viewpoint Vision PR Wolf Kasteler ZTPR

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Lol no they won’t

virtue signaling

As if they just figured it out that HFPA is lily white.

"While we stand..." is the longest sentence that I've ever seen.

The HFPA will read this letter at their boozy, expensive dinners and laugh.

Better late than never

I wonder how many black employees each of these PR firms have?

(and if you think some actor as going to pass up a chance for a Golden Globe which often leads to an Oscar because the publicist said no.....this will be forgotten by next year. Actually the HFPA will find a few black people and put them in. End of scandal.)

So the foreign press are supposed to do ... what, exactly? Hire African American reporters?

Black, black,black,black. The only minority in America.

They have announced that by next year 13 percent of their group will be black.

Poor Viola.

Of course by the time the GG gets more diverse, literally zero people will care. The ratings for next year’s show will continue to slide. Wait until the ratings debacle of this year’s Oscars.

I thought the Hollywood Foreign Press were a lot of part time people who worked as florists and car valets the rest of the time.

Performative.

Like GGs don't get awarded to certain nominees after substantial cash transfers half the time.

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.. ....

OFFS

How many Asian or Latino members? Oh wait, nobody cares about that.

*trans furiously scribbling notes on this*

Hollywood is genuinely funny.

I love you so much R1.

Where were they when Susan Clark was nominated for [italic]Webster[/italic] and lost?

The HFPA should just go ahead and say," That's fine, but who is the loser if you hold your client out of the awards and they still happen? " You think the celebrities will have a shit fit and make the publicists enter them? Someone has to take a stand.

The HFPA should turn right around and say "We don't want to support racism. We're disbanding. Thanx for your support over the decades."

So are they going to add members from African nations? Or recruit black members from Asian and South American representative countries? Are there a lot of black people from Switzerland?

I heard there were Black people in Israel. Will they be included?

Just end awards shows already. Let them go the way of variety shows. Nobody's really interested anymore.

That’s because the media industrial complex stopped creating content worth giving awards to.

I honestly think western civilization peaked in the 1980s and it’s been a long downhill slide since then.

[quote]Black, black,black,black. The only minority in America.

[quote]How many Asian or Latino members? Oh wait, nobody cares about that.

Love this tactic of pitting all the minorities against each other as a way to invalidate any issues one might have.

How about instead of asking that question you try asking why that's not the focus?

Perhaps it's because [bold]there have been and are Asian and Latino members [/bold]... the Chair is fucking East Asian!

There hasn't been a single black member in 20 years which is weird and a problem.

Exactly, they would rather push out a brother who speaks English for someone lighter skin who can’t.

How brave...waiting until a week after the awards were handed out. Also, with few exceptions, the nominees participated.

[quote]There hasn't been a single black member in 20 years which is weird and a problem.

It's only "weird" and a "problem" for racists.

If they are going to admit black journalists they are going to first teach them how to write.